Jeremiah Smith

Jeremiah Smith (29 November 1759-21 September 1842) was a member of the US House of Representatives (F-NH) from 4 March 1793 to 26 July 1797 (succeeding Abiel Foster and preceding Peleg Sprague) and Governor of New Hampshire from 8 June 1809 to 5 June 1810 (interrupting John Langdon's terms).

Biography
Jeremiah Smith was born in Peterborough, New Hampshire in 1759, and he served in the Continental Army before becoming a lawyer in 1786. He went on to serve in the US House of Representatives from 1793 to 1797 and in the State House from 1798 to 1799, and he served as a US Attorney for the District of New Hampshire from 1797 to 1800, a probate judge of Rockingham County from 1800 to 1801, a Judge of the US Circuit Court for the First Circuit from 1801 to 1802, Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of New Hampshire from 1802 to 1809 and from 1813 to 1816, and Governor of New Hampshire from 1809 to 1810. He died in 1842.